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Entrant torture described
Arizona Daily Star ^

Posted on 01/21/2005 5:57:33 AM PST by Kokojmudd

Prosecutor makes case against man in 3 Points attack By Michael Marizco ARIZONA DAILY STAR

Lost and hungry, the three illegal border crossers hoped the Three Points property would be a place to rest. Instead, they were stripped and extorted, and one them was tortured, a county prosecutor told jurors Thursday.

Two of the men listened to the screams coming from the room where Roselin Bravo Rodriguez, 22, of Chiapas, Mexico, was taken, Deputy Pima County Attorney Bill Dickinson said in opening statements.

Captors used pliers to rip out a toenail. They tore out his two false front teeth, then lacerated his chest and forehead. Finally, they made a second illegal entrant, David Morales, pray that they be forgiven. The purpose of the torture, Dickinson told jurors, was an attempt to extort money from relatives of the men already living in the United States.

Hector Jesus Soria, 21, faces two counts of kidnapping and one count of aggravated assault for the September 2003 attack. If convicted, he faces at least 14 years in prison. The case is being heard before Superior Court Judge John Davis.

Soria and Barry Joseph Van Brocklin, 27, woke Bravo Rodriguez, Morales and a third man, leading them to a trailer on the property where investigators say the attack occurred.

Morales, a Guatemalan who had stopped at the trailer for help, was made to help clean up the blood, Dickinson said. The third illegal entrant was never found.

Soria's attorney, Homero Torralba, said the property was the site of a people-smuggling ring and described the scene as a party with beer and cocaine.

He said Morales was drinking beer with other people in the trailer while Bravo Rodriguez was being tortured. He also told jurors that Bravo Rodriguez was not able to identify Soria as his attacker at the preliminary hearing.

Torralba said it appears Bravo Rodriguez at least helped the smuggler, and the attack was the result of a deal gone bad.

Van Brocklin pleaded guilty in August to one charge of kidnapping Bravo Rodriguez and is scheduled to be sentenced next month. He faces at least seven years in prison.

Threats and kidnappings by people smugglers for more money from illegal entrants have usually occurred in the Phoenix area, where many illegal-entrant stash houses were in existence last year, said Russell Ahr, spokesman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Phoenix. That type of crime, however, has decreased since last summer, he said.

The agency raided more than 220 Arizona homes last year that agents believed were being used to hide illegal entrants, he said.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Mexico; News/Current Events; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: aliens; immigrantlist
This is sick. Another reason to close the borders with an Israeli style wall.
1 posted on 01/21/2005 5:57:33 AM PST by Kokojmudd
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To: Kokojmudd

They're not Entrants, they are criminal invaders and I don't have an ounce of sympathy for them, just like I have no sympathy for a burglar who is shot or eaten by dogs.


2 posted on 01/21/2005 6:06:13 AM PST by the gillman@blacklagoon.com (RLK was right.)
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To: Kokojmudd

If only we had a monorail built in the desert to help these people get inside America...


3 posted on 01/21/2005 6:07:09 AM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - They want to die for Islam, and we want to kill them.)
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To: Kokojmudd

Looks to me like Hispanic illegal aliens torturing their own kind....all in the process of smuggling them into the United States.


4 posted on 01/21/2005 6:09:32 AM PST by dennisw (G_D: Against Amelek for all generations.)
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To: Kokojmudd

I thought an entrant was a person who was registered to participate in an event, such as a race. I guess this is supposed to take the illegal border violator stigma off the folks.

Call the Israelis and have them build us the wall in exchange for all we've done for them over the years!!

Cheers!


5 posted on 01/21/2005 6:12:28 AM PST by SZonian (Too early in the year for a tagline.)
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To: Kokojmudd
Michael Marizco, the "author" of this "article" should be thrown in prison for what he's done to the English language.  This entire story is just about indecipherable.  His timeline of events and exposing of fact would be right at home in a Quinten Tarantino movie.
 
That being said, I agree with you KJM, although I'd go with a Berlin type wall, heavily guarded, mined, barbwired, patroled by hungry jackals.  And if somehow you get in anyway, there's only one way out, over the wall... or six feet under.
 
Owl_Eagle

"You know, I'm going to start thanking
the woman who cleans the restroom in
the building I work in.  I'm going to start
thinking of her as a human being"

-Hillary Clinton
(Yes, she really said that
Peggy Noonan
The Case Against Hillary Clinton, pg

6 posted on 01/21/2005 6:13:17 AM PST by End Times Sentinel ("If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace;" –Thomas Paine)
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To: Kokojmudd
Entrant torture described

Entrant:
One that enters, especially one that enters a competition

Jeez, when I first saw the headline I thought this was about American Idol©.
I hear those judges can be really mean, especially the English guy.

/s

7 posted on 01/21/2005 6:16:50 AM PST by Condor51 (May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. - Gen G Patton)
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To: Owl_Eagle

"Michael Marizco, the "author" of this "article" should be thrown in prison for what he's done to the English language. This entire story is just about indecipherable. His timeline of events and exposing of fact would be right at home in a Quinten Tarantino movie."

Ha ha. I was, thinking the same, and maybe, Mister Marizco, the author, could benefit, by reading and studying, a little book which was used for many years in many, many places, and by many writers and students, and is called The Elements of Style by Strunk & White and was published a long long time ago, back when entrants were new college students, it will help the writer to avoid common writing errors such as, run on sentences, and, excessive use of commas. I say.


8 posted on 01/21/2005 6:24:25 AM PST by Kokojmudd (Today's Liberal is Tomorrow's Prospective Flying Saucer Abductee)
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To: Kokojmudd

K,
Nice one. I'm with you. Let's send him a Strunk & White as well as Fowler's.


9 posted on 01/21/2005 7:30:16 AM PST by Gefreiter (When seconds count, the police are minutes away.)
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To: Gefreiter

Ebay has several S & W's. I put bid in on ebay item 4520799286. I will hand deliver to Red Star offices if I am the winning bidder.


10 posted on 01/21/2005 7:38:58 AM PST by Kokojmudd (Today's Liberal is Tomorrow's Prospective Flying Saucer Abductee)
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To: Kokojmudd

K,
Hah, you're a stud.


11 posted on 01/21/2005 7:53:37 AM PST by Gefreiter (When seconds count, the police are minutes away.)
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To: 1_Inch_Group; 2sheep; 2Trievers; 3AngelaD; 4.1O dana super trac pak; 4Freedom; 4ourprogeny; ...

ping


12 posted on 01/21/2005 12:40:42 PM PST by gubamyster
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To: Kokojmudd
There is a new book out on proper usage called Eats, Shoots, and Leaves. Am starting to read it, now.
13 posted on 01/21/2005 12:43:44 PM PST by dirtboy (To make a pearl, you must first irritate an oyster)
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To: Owl_Eagle
The Israeli wall looks effective... Image Hosted by The Image Hosting
14 posted on 01/21/2005 1:13:34 PM PST by 1_Inch_Group
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To: Kokojmudd; Owl_Eagle; Gefreiter
Mister Marizco, the author, could benefit, by reading and studying, a little book which was used for many years in many, many places, and by many writers and students, and is called The Elements of Style by Strunk & White and was published a long long time ago

Great book! It was introduced to me by my 7th grade teacher, Nectar Kazanjian, a very sharp, capable, and classy lady, over 40 years ago. It is still in print, essentially unchanged, today, available in paperback in almost any bookstore.

15 posted on 01/21/2005 3:21:23 PM PST by rmh47 (Go Kats! - Got Seven?)
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To: 2banana
monorail built in the desert

Don't give the President any ideas...

16 posted on 01/21/2005 4:05:18 PM PST by janetgreen
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